SomaliNet Forums

Elman FC arrives in Tanzania for CECAFA club tournament

Hiiraan Online
Friday, June 24, 2011

Elman FC, the Somalia league champions had arrived in Darussalam Tanzania this evening to represent Somali Football Clubs in this years CECAFA-KAGAME Club Cup that will kick off on Saturday in Julias Nyerere National Stadium.

Elman is in Group B which is “Group of death” together with huge teams like Tanzanian giants Yanga FC, El Merriekh FC of Sudan and Uganda’s Bunamwaya FC. Yusuf Ali’s boys will kick off their first game in the group stage against Uganda Bunamwaya on Monday.

The club has been in camp in Mogadishu for the last four weeks, preparing for this tournament. Elman’s young boss Yusuf Ali, says that they have been included a group of strong teams, but his boys will perform magnificent football and negotiates with the difficulties.

Speaking to Bar-kulan Radio, Yusuf Ali said “we are going to play, we are in the group of death, look at Elmerrikh and Yanga - they are big teams, but I hope that we can do something good for the team and the country, because I’m confident with my players”

However, Elman club which came from, the world's most dangerous city will have no loyal fans behind them, because of the small number of Somali Community in Tanzania.

The tournament of twelve teams is sponsored by Sudanese company of Elmerrickh Group and Rwanda’s President H.E. Paul Kagame.

Here’s the full draw for the group stage of the CECAFA Club Champions 2011.

Group A: Simba, Vital O’, Etinceles, Ocean Boys
Group B: Yanga, El Merreikh, Bunamwaya, Elman FC
Group C: APR, St George, Ulinzi, Ports

hope they win, somali need pride even from football leagues

Are ocean boys also from somalia?

Cumar-Labasuul wrote:Are ocean boys also from somalia?

Sounds like a somali team innit These are the countries they are from:

Group A teams are Simba (Tanzania), Vital'O (Burundi), Etincelles (Rwanda) and Ocean Boys (Zanzibar) while group B has Yanga (Tanzania), El Merreikh (Sudan), Bunamwaya SC (Uganda) and Elman FC of Somalia. Group C, whose matches will take place at the Jamhuri Stadium in Morogoro, has APR (Rwanda), St. George (Ethiopia), Ulinzi (Kenya) and Ports (Djibouti).

Young Africans

Yeah anything with ocean or stars sounds somali

They need to win, these countries are rubbish at football -> tanzania, sudan, ethiopia, uganda and definitely djibouti

Cumar-Labasuul wrote:Yeah anything with ocean or stars sounds somali

They need to win, these countries are rubbish at football -> tanzania, sudan, ethiopia, uganda and definitely djibouti

Its not like we're better.

Gooooooo Elman!!!!

Even if we get trashed, I'm happy to see that they are competing

Cumar-Labasuul wrote:Yeah anything with ocean or stars sounds somali

Funny that u say that cause the nick name of the somali national team is Ocean stars

Greenday, believe walaal somalis are better in football than those countries our only problem is laziness and also everybody wants to be the star player (number 9 ) they don't know how to play as a team, other than that we are actually good

Executive wrote:

Cumar-Labasuul wrote:Yeah anything with ocean or stars sounds somali

Funny that u say that cause the nick name of the somali national team is Ocean stars

Cumar-Labasuul wrote:Greenday, believe walaal somalis are better in football than those countries our only problem is laziness and also everybody wants to be the star player (number 9 ) they don't know how to play as a team, other than that we are actually good

lol yea man, on a Somali team everyone on the team wants to be the goal scorer

Cumar-Labasuul wrote:Greenday, believe walaal somalis are better in football than those countries our only problem is laziness and also everybody wants to be the star player (number 9 ) they don't know how to play as a team, other than that we are actually good

This just sums up Somalia. I've seen enough Somali boys play to know wax inaadan meesha ku heyn, don’t worry though I’d still cheer them on

shirib, somalis hate to defend you'll find few good somali defenders and even fewer decent goalkeepers. Me I play as a full back/winger (right or left) I hate striker position.

greenday, come on sis you wasn't focusing on how they were playing were you... anyway yeah cheer them on

AbuukarSubeer wrote:hope they win, somali need pride even from football leagues

I hope they do not embarrass and lose by 15 zip.